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professorship

[pruh-fes-er-ship] / prəˈfɛs ərˌʃɪp /


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He also held a clinical professorship at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

In 2023, at age 38, he had been appointed to a professorship in sociology of education at the University of Cambridge, becoming the youngest Black professor in the institution’s 800-year history.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

After a decade teaching at the Bauhaus, which Hitler closed, he took a professorship at Düsseldorf Academy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The visiting professorship was established in 1990, with previous incumbents including Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Myra Syal and Dame Diana Rigg.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

For Segre, a friend and collaborator of Enrico Fermi’s who was heading home to a professorship at Italy’s poverty-stricken University of Palermo, these pieces of radioactive shrapnel were priceless.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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